The Guardian - 27.08.2019

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‘Grave abuse of power’ if PM shuts

parliament to force no-deal Brexit

Heather Stewart Biarritz

Rowena Mason

Boris Johnson would be committing

the “gravest abuse of power and attack

on UK constitutional principle in living

memory” if he shut down parliament

to force through a no-deal Brexit,

according to legal advice for Labour.

In a six-page document prepared

for Jeremy Corbyn, the shadow attor-

ney general , Shami Chakrabarti, laid

out how such a move would be open

to immediate legal challenge.

Chakrabarti, a barrister, said the

move could be subject to judicial

review and the courts “might well

even grant interim injunctive relief in

order to allow both Houses of Parlia-

ment to continue to sit and discharge

their primary and sovereign constitu-

tional role in this current moment of

national crisis.

“I have no hesitation in advising

that any such attempted administra-

tive action by the government would

constitute the gravest abuse of power

and attack upon UK constitutional

principle in living memory,” she wrote.

Chakrabarti’s advice was commis-

sioned by Labour after leaked emails

revealed that No 10 had asked Geoff rey

Cox, the attorney general, whether a

fi ve-week prorogation from 9 Sep-

tember might be possible to avoid a

no-confi dence vote and help enable

a no-deal Brexit.

The initial legal guidance for No 10

was that shutting parliament may be

possible, unless action in the courts to

block such a move by anti-Brexit cam-

paigners succeeded in the meantime.

Johnson was pressed yesterday at

the close of the G7 summit in Biarritz

on what he would do if MPs tried to

thwart his Brexit policy and refused

to rule out shutting down parliament.

“ This really is a matter for parlia-

mentarians to get right ourselves,”

he said. “We asked the people to vote

on whether they wanted

to stay in or leave the EU;

Optimism

helps you

live longer,

study fi nds

Nicola Davis

Seeing the glass as half full may mean

a longer life, according to research that

suggests optimists not only live longer

in general but have a better chance of

reaching 85 or older.

Optimism has been linked to bene-

fi ts before. People with an optimistic

mindset have been found to have

a lower risk of heart conditions and

premature death. Researchers now

say it could also play a role in living

a long life.

Lewina Lee, lead author of the

study at Boston University’s school

of medicine, said: “A lot of evidence

suggests that exceptional longevity is

usually accompanied by a longer span

of good health and living without dis-

ability, so our fi ndings raise an exciting

possibility that we may be able to pro-

mote healthy and resilient ageing by

cultivating psychosocial assets such

as optimism .”

Writing in Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences , Lee and

colleagues analysed data

from two earlier long-term

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‘It would constitute
the gravest abuse of
power and attack on
UK constitutional
principle in living
memory’
Shami Chakrabarti
Legal advice to Labour
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